Cost awareness among intensivists in their daily clinical practice: a prospective multicentre study.
Cost awareness
Daily clinical practice
Financial impact
Health care cost control
Medical knowledge
Sustainable hospital development
Journal
The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care
ISSN: 1618-7601
Titre abrégé: Eur J Health Econ
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 101134867
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
13 Mar 2024
13 Mar 2024
Historique:
received:
25
09
2023
accepted:
13
02
2024
medline:
13
3
2024
pubmed:
13
3
2024
entrez:
13
3
2024
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
Better cost-awareness is a prerogative in achieving the best benefit/risk/cost ratio in the care. We aimed to assess the cost-awareness of intensivists in their daily clinical practice and to identify factors associated with accurate estimate of cost (50-150% of the real cost). We performed a prospective observational study in seven French ICUs. We compared the estimate of intensivists of the daily costs of caring with the real costs on a given day. The estimates covered five categories (drugs, laboratory tests, imaging modalities, medical devices, and waste) whose sum represented the overall cost. Of the 234 estimates made by 65 intensivists, 70 (29.9%) were accurate. The median overall cost estimate (€330 [170; 620]) was significantly higher than the real cost (€178 [124; 239], p < 0.001). This overestimation was found in four categories, in particular for waste (€40 [15; 100] vs. €1.1 [0.6; 2.3], p < 0.001). Only the laboratory tests were underestimated (€65 [30; 120] vs. €106 [79; 138], p < 0.001). Being aware of the financial impact of prescriptions was factor associated with accurate estimate (OR: 5.05, 95%CI:1.47-17.4, p = 0.01). However, feeling able to accurately perform estimation was factor negatively associated with accurate estimate (OR: 0.11, 95%CI: 0.02-0.71, p = 0.02). French intensivists have a poor awareness of costs in their daily clinical practice. Raising awareness of the financial impact of prescriptions, and of the cost of laboratory tests and waste are the main areas for improvement that could help achieve the objective of the best care at the best cost.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Better cost-awareness is a prerogative in achieving the best benefit/risk/cost ratio in the care. We aimed to assess the cost-awareness of intensivists in their daily clinical practice and to identify factors associated with accurate estimate of cost (50-150% of the real cost).
METHODS
METHODS
We performed a prospective observational study in seven French ICUs. We compared the estimate of intensivists of the daily costs of caring with the real costs on a given day. The estimates covered five categories (drugs, laboratory tests, imaging modalities, medical devices, and waste) whose sum represented the overall cost.
RESULTS
RESULTS
Of the 234 estimates made by 65 intensivists, 70 (29.9%) were accurate. The median overall cost estimate (€330 [170; 620]) was significantly higher than the real cost (€178 [124; 239], p < 0.001). This overestimation was found in four categories, in particular for waste (€40 [15; 100] vs. €1.1 [0.6; 2.3], p < 0.001). Only the laboratory tests were underestimated (€65 [30; 120] vs. €106 [79; 138], p < 0.001). Being aware of the financial impact of prescriptions was factor associated with accurate estimate (OR: 5.05, 95%CI:1.47-17.4, p = 0.01). However, feeling able to accurately perform estimation was factor negatively associated with accurate estimate (OR: 0.11, 95%CI: 0.02-0.71, p = 0.02).
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSIONS
French intensivists have a poor awareness of costs in their daily clinical practice. Raising awareness of the financial impact of prescriptions, and of the cost of laboratory tests and waste are the main areas for improvement that could help achieve the objective of the best care at the best cost.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38472725
doi: 10.1007/s10198-024-01686-y
pii: 10.1007/s10198-024-01686-y
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Informations de copyright
© 2024. The Author(s).
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